It's Lookbook time.

I can't believe it is November already, where has this year gone? And even more surprised that the fourth edition of the fabulous Lookbook from Sarah Hurley and I thought I would show you some of my creations. I ventured out of my comfort zone of cards quite a few times in this issue and you will see that from this post.

I decided to look out all the lovely Martha Stewart paints that have been hiding in my craft room and make something completely different.  I bought door hanger blanks ages ago and they have been lying unloved, time to change that.  As the Lookbook is an Autumnal themed one, I thought I would make it slightly Halloweeny, though this can be used at all times, if you are anything at all like me ;)

I painted it with Arrowhead, then Silver.  I stamped the "Keep Out" and "Casting Spells" using Block Alpha Stamps, the "Beware" and the skull came from Angelica Strange Stamps and Malcolm Strange Stamps. To add some texture, I masked off the words using a post it note and  used Sarah's Crackle Background Stamp. I added a skull and crossbones die cut, which I cut from Black Magic Co'redinations and scrunched it up, then sanded it to reveal a wee glimpse of orange.

Ingredients

Block Alpha Stamps

Angelica Strange Stamps

Malcolm Strange Stamps

Large Texture Crackle Stamp

Martha Stewart Paints

Door hanger blank

Archival Ink

Skull die

Co'redinations Black Magic

I am sure you will agree this is different for me, and hubby has claimed it already for his tool cupboard!!

I hope you love the new Lookbook as much as I do, and enjoy having a look through it.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges;

Try It On Tuesday - Halloween

Stamping With The Dragon - Halloween

CD Case with a difference.

Hi, I thought I would share another project I made for the Sarah Hurley Lookbook 3.  This time I came out of my comfort zone and chose to alter something, and used a background from  Journaled 365, Journal Basics and a stamp from the fabulous Odds and End stamp set.

There are a few pictures, and I will explain as I go.

I took a blank CD and CD case, and made them "retro" using the Cassette stamp from the Odds and Ends set.  I used lots of different colours of Memento ink pads to make it really bright and funky.  

I stamped the CD too, to make it match the CD case.

I printed out a paper from the Journaled 365 digi kit, and to make it even more vivid I printed it onto photo paper and it looks amazing.

It is truly inky fun, without all the mess which suits me fine *happy face*

Ingredients

Journaled 365 - Journaled Basics by Sarah Hurley

Odds & Ends Stamp Set by Sarah Hurley

Memento Ink Pads

Photo paper, CD Case and CD from stash.

It is a great way to personalise gifts, or update the old "Mix Tape" and bring it right up to date.

I hope this inspires you to try something different in your craft room.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges;

That Craft Place - Makes for Men

My Time To Craft - Show us The Inside

Delicious Doodles - Anything But a Card

Crafting By Designs - Remembering Our Childhood(Mix Tapes)

Whimsical Designs - Alter It

Shades of blue.

Is the theme over at the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog this month, and I am always amazed at how many different creations we come up with for a theme, but especially when it is a monochrome one. 

I chose to make a card using different blue papers, and made my theme the sky.  I took the gingham paper from Oz, and made it my base layer. Used some gorgeous polka dot papers from Secret Rose Garden and die cut them to be wee hot air balloons, this is one of my favourite dies as it makes me think of floating away to Oz. My sentiment "Enjoy the Journey" comes from the Expedition kit.  I also managed to play with this months A Few of My Favourite Things Kit, which is full of gorgeous cloudy papers, bright coloured papers, journalling cards and stamps. I used one of the stamps on my cloud die cut, and I love the result.

Ingredients

Gingham paper - Oz

Polka dot paper - Secret Rose Garden

Enjoy the Journey sentiment - Expedition

Perfect Day Stamp - A Few Of My Favourite Things Kit

Hot air balloon and cloud dies.

Blue pearlised card, white card and card base from stash

Baskets on hot air balloon coloured with a flexmarker.

We also have lots of exciting creations in the third edition of Lookbook, why not have a browse?

I really hope you can join us this month, and don't be blue about it if you can't :)

I would also like to enter the following challenges;
As You Like It - Dies 
Southern Girls Challenge - Say that again
Crafting For All Seasons - Monochromatic
Stampavie and More - Lots of Die Cuts
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments - The Letter B(Balloons & Blue)
Die Cuttin Divas - Anything Goes
Love to Create - Dies
Glitter N Sparkle - White & One other colour.

Lookbook Issue 3 and a gorgeous new range.

Hiya, hope you are all well. Very exciting times for us DT members of the Sarah Hurley Team, as Issue 3 of the  Lookbook went live yesterday, it is crammed full of great creations from the very talented team that I am lucky to be a part of :D

Here is one of my creations, I can show it off now that this gorgeous new range has been launched and it is called Gatsby. There is a digi kit and a set of matching stamps, a must have if you love all the glamour and glitz of a bygone era.

I altered a photo album with the kit and really love the result.

Ingredients

Gatsby Digi Kit  by Sarah Hurley

Silver paper, pearls , butterfly punchies and die cuts from stash.

I hope the Lookbook inspires you to make something different.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges;

DRS Designs - Butterflies

Sisterhood of Crafters - Anything Goes
Unstampabelles - Anything but a card

Moustache you a question?

Are you as crazy about the moustache trend as I am? I adore them and can't get enough of them.  You can imagine how delighted I was when Sarah Hurley added moustache stamps to the range.  Last months "A Few of my Favourite Things" kit was simply fan"tash"tic :D, it was packed full of moustache papers, embellishments and this fab sentiment and a moustache stamp. I also have the Odds & Ends Stamp Set which is choc full of yummy stamps.  I decided to make my own backing paper using the 'tash stamp and popped the sentiment onto some 1mm foam to give the card dimension.

Ingredients

Moustache Stamp - Sarah Hurley, Odds & Ends Stamp Set

Moustache Stamp & Sentiment - Sarah Hurley, A Few of My Favourite Things Kit

Memento Ink and pen

Silver paper from The Papeterie.

This week is a very exciting week for us all, as the third edition of LookBook goes live and it will be full of inspiration to get you making beautiful things using Sarahs amazing ranges.

Exciting times.

Hello again,

Very exciting day for us members of the Sarah Hurley DT, as the second edition of the Lookbook went live this morning.  There has been a lot of work going on behind the scenes, and now I can start to show you my creations for this issue.

 

First of all I will show you a Christmas card I made using papers from the Tinseltown Digi Kit.  The options are endless, and I chose to make a green themed card.  I used a snowfall paper as my base layer and the petal dot as the bauble paper.  I embossed a sheet of white pearlised card with a Sizzix folder to carry on the snow theme. The dies are from Memory Box.  I had to add some bling onto the baubles, just to make it twinkle.  The sentiment is also from the kit.

 Ingredients

Sarah Hurley Tinseltown Kit.

Memory Box Die

Sizzix embossing folder

Silver ribbon, twine, gems and pearls from stash.

 

I hope you enjoy the Lookbook as much as we enjoyed making things for it.

 

 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges;

Guylou's Inimitability - Let it snow.

Raise the Bar - Let it Snow

Dutch Dare Card Challenges - Snowflakes

ABC Christmas Challenge - Your favourite Die

Perfect Sentiments Challenge - Must have a sentiment on the front - Christmas

Crafty Sentiments - Snowflakes



 

50th card and a Lookbook reminder.

I can't believe it is the 1st of November...where has this year gone?  Hope you all had a lovely Halloween, and are gearing up for Christmas and making lots of cards :)

 

It is almost time for people to submit their creations for the next Sarah Hurley Lookbook, pop over to the blog and all the information for submitting is there. I hope you join in, the last one was fabulous fun to be part of.

 

I have lots of creations waiting to be blogged, in the meantime here is a comission I received for a 50th birthday card for a lady who likes cats, green and sparkly things. I hope she liked this.

I shall blog again later with this months challenge over at The Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog.

Exciting crafty news.

Hiya everyone :) It is finally the weekend :D What a busy week it has been for me, from collecting a new car to the best crafty news *ever*.

 

As many of you will know I was a Guest Designer for the fabulous Sarah Hurley, and I was asked if I would like to be a permanent member...needless to say I didn't even have to think about my answer :D I love being part of this amazing Design Team of very talented and all round great girlies. 

 

Oooo, I also have a new DT badge *happy dance*

 

 

One of the highlights of my 3 months was working on the gorgeous Lookbook, which has great inspiration for using Sarahs range.  It has proved so popular that there will be a second one, and Sarah is looking for project submissions for the new Lookbook Volume 2.  Pop over to Sarahs Blog post to find out all the information, it is a very exciting time for us :D

 

 

Hope you all have a wander over to the website and have a browse, have a great weekend :D xx